Buckle.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD W. HADLEY, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO R. A. MOORE,SR., AND R. A. MOORE, JR., OF. KENSINGTON, CONNECTICUT.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.717,7 '43, dated January6, 1903. Application illed October 13, 1902. Serial No. 127,004. (Nomodel.)

.To all whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, EDWARD W. RADLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut,have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBuckles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in buckles of the class in which alever-jaw is pivoted to the frame and acts against a back bar thereof;and the objects of my improvement are simplicity and economy inconstruction and efficiency in use.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation ot' mybuckle, together with a portion of suspender-webbing.` Fig. 2 is asectional side elevation of Ythe same, in which a portion of the frameis sectioned on the line a: oc of Fig. I. Fig. 3 is a'front elevation ofthe blank for the frame or what may be said to be the frame in its flatform. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the buckle with the handle portionof the lever-jaw turned upwardly.

I make the frame of my buckle of a single piece of wire, which ispreferably first bent into substantially the form shown in Fig. 3, thesaine consisting of the upper and lower cross-bars 5 6 and twoconnecting end portions bent inwardly, as shown, so as to form the twolever-bearings 7, that are parallel to the upper cross-bar 5, and thetwo oblique portions 8, extending from the inner ends of thelever-bearings 7 downwardly and outwardly to meet the ends of the lowercrossbar 6 by a proper curve at the junction of the said obliqueportions and lower cross-bar. I prefer to first form this frame in thisform, with the several members all in one planethat is, the blank isfiat. I then bend the frame-blank substantially in the line of thelever-bearings 7 to bring the upper crossLbar 5 into one plane with thelever-bearings 7 7 and the body of the frame-that is, the lowercross-bar 6, oblique portions 8 8, and leverbearings 7 7-into anotherplane at substantially a right angle to the said rst plane, therebygiving the buckle-frame substantially an L-shaped form, as shown in Fig.2, with the lever-bearings at the junction of the 5o said two planes ortwo members of the said L-shaped form.

The lever-jaw is substantially of an ordinary construction, consistingof the jaw portion 9, having preferably atoothed edge and a handle orlever portion l0, the same being 'the object of adjusting the buckle onkthe webbing being to vary the `length of the said loop 12, asin otherSuspenders of this class.

One end of the webbingv is secured tothe buckle-frame in any propermanner and the other end threaded through the frame by passing in frontof the lower cross-bar 6, then back of the oblique and lever-bearingportions, and then upwardly between the leverjaw and the upper cross-bar5. In Fig. 2 I have shown the upper end of one member of the said loop12 with the webbing passed around the bars 5 and 6 and connected on bysewing.

The particular manner of securing the webbing to the buckle and theparticular part of the buckle to which the webbing is attached is only amatter of choice on the -part of the suspender-manufacturer or otherperson who may attach the buckle to some other article, the constructionof the buckle and the proportions and disposition of the jaw portion ofthe lever-jaw to the other parts of the buckle not being in any wayaffected by the mannerl of attaching the webbing. When the end of thewebbing is secured to the buckle-frame by passing around both of thecross-bars 5 and 6 in the particular manner clearly shown in Fig. 2, theback of the buckle-frame is covered by the webbing, so that no part ofthe buckle will 'come against the garment upon which the webbing rests.

I am aware that the combination of a pivoted lever-jaw with buckle-framemounted thereon to engage abross-bar of the frame'is old, and I herebydisclaim the same.

I claim as my invention- A buckle consisting solely of two members, onemember in the form of a rectangular frame composed of a single piece ofwire, and having an upper cross-bar 5 at one of its longitudinal sides,two'lever-bearings 7 7, par- IOC allel to the said upper cross-bar, twoconnecting portions 8, 8, extending outwardly and downwardly from theinner ends of the said lever-bearings, and a lower cross-bar 6intermediate the Outer ends of the said connecting portions 8, 8, andforming the other one Of the longitudinal sides of the frame, the saidupper cross-bar 5 and lever-bearings 7, 7, being in one plane and thesaid connecting portions H, 8, lower cross-bar 6, and lever-bearings 7,7, being in another plane at substantially right angles to the plane Ofthe said upper cross-bar and lever-bearings, the other member of thebuckle being;r in the form of a lever-jaw having a jaw portion 9 and ahandle or lever portion 10 standing substantially at EDWARD W. HADLEY.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. KIRKHAM, JAMES E. COOPER.

